OT: ESPN Makes Sudden Guidelines Change to Limit On-Air Talent’s Political Commentary

[Patriotgame]

Will this really make a difference? Most of their talent consists of blithering idiots...


http://www.breitbart.com/sports/201...to-limit-on-air-talents-political-commentary/

 

[iasooner1]

Interesting. I just want SI to go back to the days when CFB was more than half a page for the top 10 game snippets with a page or two story for the game of the week.

 

[Plainosooner]

Tell them to rehire Curt Schilling, just for a little balance. He was fired for being a conservative. The liberals are just being told, "Now, now. We're all a bunch of lefties, but let's not be quite so vocal about it. Wink, wink."

 

[Oklabama]

I watch live sporting events that interest me on ESPN. Nothing else other than Game Day and Football Final early Sunday morning. Pretty much all their other yak, yak stuff, I have zero interest in. If I want to hear political crap I will tune into Fox, MSNBC or CNN.....NOT!

 

[CTOkie]

Tell them to rehire Curt Schilling, just for a little balance. He was fired for being a conservative. The liberals are just being told, "Now, now. We're all a bunch of lefties, but let's not be quite so vocal about it. Wink, wink."

Gotta love ESPN....it gives a "courage" award for Kaitlyn Jenner, hires a thug in Ray Rice for its excessive, tedious NFL coverage, awards Serena Williams as Sportsperson of the Year in 2015 after her profanity laced tantrums, racket throwing, etc.
I guess anything is okay in Leftyland.....except hiring that "evil" Curt Schilling.
I don't think ESPN has to "wink, wink" these days.

 

[CTOkie]

I watch live sporting events that interest me on ESPN. Nothing else other than Game Day and Football Final early Sunday morning. Pretty much all their other yak, yak stuff, I have zero interest in. If I want to hear political crap I will tune into Fox, MSNBC or CNN.....NOT!

All I watch on ESPN are just the games and highlights shows. Even the Heisman Award show has become tedious to watch.
ESPN is really a millennial-catering network, as is its rag magazine.

 

[JConXtsy]

All I watch on ESPN are just the games and highlights shows. Even the Heisman Award show has become tedious to watch.
ESPN is really a millennial-catering network, as is its rag magazine.

Not sure it's actually catering towards a certain demographic. That's kind of insulting to millennials. It might be Gen X'ers thinking they know what millennials want, but at any rate, I believe viewership is at an all time low.

 

[veritas59]

Gotta love ESPN....it gives a "courage" award for Kaitlyn Jenner, hires a thug in Ray Rice for its excessive, tedious NFL coverage, awards Serena Williams as Sportsperson of the Year in 2015 after her profanity laced tantrums, racket throwing, etc.
I guess anything is okay in Leftyland.....except hiring that "evil" Curt Schilling.
I don't think ESPN has to "wink, wink" these days.

I remember the good ol' days when we only complained about Mark May.

 

[WhyNotaSooner]

I often times wish the old lumberjack competition and CFL programming from the early 80's was available as compared to the crap they deliver these days.

 

[WhyNotaSooner]

Perhaps it's the Trump effect. Boatloads of peeps moved from the left to put him in the WH. Maybe they are shifting a tad to the march of their viewers.

 

[Plainosooner]

I remember the lumberjack competitions on Wide World of Sports back in the 60's.

 

[CTOkie]

I remember the good ol' days when we only complained about Mark May.

Mark May's pre-Sugar Bowl prediction of Alabama 48, Oklahoma 10 was right on the money, wasn't it ? The guy knows his stuff !

 

[Oklabama]

I remember the good ol' days when we only complained about Mark May.

Mark May drove me up the wall talking so damn fast, but Lou Holtz was even worse with his spitting, sputtering hair lip pronunciation delivery, not to mention putting up with all the Notre Dame yak yak. God I don't miss those two.

 

[CTOkie]

Mark May drove me up the wall talking so damn fast, but Lou Holtz was even worse with his spitting, sputtering hair lip pronunciation delivery, not to mention putting up with all the Notre Dame yak yak. God I don't miss those two.

They're both gone ? Really ? If so, I'm happy to hear of it.

 

[veritas59]

I often times wish the old lumberjack competition and CFL programming from the early 80's was available as compared to the crap they deliver these days.

I like the lumberjack stuff....

 

[Oklabama]

They're both gone ? Really ? If so, I'm happy to hear of it.

I'm not sure they are completely gone, but they were replaced about three years ago on College Football Final. Actually, their replacements suck pretty much as well. I think there has been a couple different attempts to change the format. It would be nice if they would just show the highlights without all the hokie comments. Galloway is okay but Danny Kanell is a dufus.